The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-19
Massey TROUBLED AGAIN.
The Tax and Tariff acknowledgements
sion at the Corners.


Toledo Blade.
PosToFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, }
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky, Z
Aug. IL. 1887 }
In a recent copy of a Democratic Louisville
paper Deekn Pogram. witch he'd q cousin witch
could read at his house, found article wich de-
mandd the immejit repeal nv all taxes onto the
necessities life" and witch stated that them
wuz the sentimence NV the President and must
be made a part and parsel NV Democrisy, and
that must go into the next campane with
that eZ our ralylng cry.
The Deekin riz up and remarked to hiz cousin,
swat do l hearl Repeel the taxes on tho neces-
saries Nv life redoose the cost to the OPP
prest peeple That is suthin like"
And he rusht down to the village and without
consultn me, eny body else. immejitly footed
the horn fur meetin at the meetin-house TO
ashoor the President the sympathy NV the
Dimocrisy Nv the Corners in this movement,
anyhow.
/ hurried over to the meetio-house as soon as
heard nv it, and found it packed with the
DImocrisy, all Nv witch wuz in state of jubi-
lashen at the prospeck the Deekin held out to
EN-. forgiv the innosent old saint for havin
called the meetin without consultin me. and
immejitly assoomed the cheer, that it mite be
legle.
I red the article to the assemblage and vari-
commence wuz made onto it Deekin Po-
gram remarkt that the President and the party
behind him, in takin a hold stand to remove all
taxes upon the necessaries life, he'd showd
Their devoshun to the reel interests NV the peo-
pie The internal revenoo tax onto whisky wuz
a outrage upon the Dimocrisy witch deserved
the reprobashen NV every citizen Nv the Cross
Roads. 1t wuz that Internal tax witch KEEP the
price per drink up to 10 cents, when, in the
present prices for crops, wuz all that should
be exacted. (Enthoosiastic cheerin.) With
that tax removed. hkker Good be retailed at
cents and plug tobacker could be sold at half
the price now demanded. More enthusiastic
cheerin.
nessary tegslachen wood be farreechin. With
likker reduced acrost the bar to FIVE cents. the
citizens of the Cross Roads mite do either one of
two things-he Good either save some money or
he Good drink twict eZ much eZ he does now. In
either it wood be sweet boon Likker
nikkle! He had never hoped to git back to them
halcyon days agin!
Other speeches wuZ being made when Joe
Bigler and Pollock entered the meetin' house and
took part in the discushun.
Joe Bieler remarked that he quite agreed
With the meeting in takin' the tax, whether it
be tariff OF internal revenoo, often the nessar-
les Nv life. but that we had made site mistake
ez TO the Presidents ice ez to wat wuz the mes
saries Nv life.
why, wat Good it be but likker and terback-
err murmured the Deekin
What they mean by the nessaries nv life"
replied the feend Bieler, lis sich things ez
sugar, coffee, cloths Nv all kinds, and SIGH
things
1.-THE merry hell they do" exclaimed Issaker
Gavitt. lis them things wat they call nessariesF
II can't bleeve it." sed the good old deeKln,
turnin pale. 81 kin git along without sugar,
tho occasionally take a little in mine; and ez
for them artikles, they cost me nothln In COM
parison with my likker and terbacker Kin git
with nothin in the way cloze. but my reg
Ter sustaners / alluz hev he'd and ailuz must
hev This is a crooel Disappointment Is the tax
to stay on likker!"
Josef replied sayin that the President
doubtedly in favor rerainin the tax onto lik-
ker and removin it from the other articles men
shund lit wuz," he said. "a gross inlustis 60
the Dimocrisy of the Corners, for his friend Pol
lock, the store keeper. Good testify that Bascom,
with the single article of hkker, did fifty times
the biznis that he did. wlch delt in ginral goods
The females and children the Corners
1~r1t4 N1f lah1
sich, the tea and coffee markit laneuished, but
the perceshuE into Bascom's wuZ unendin. It
wuz Bascom wich he'd mortgages onto all the
farms, Pollock Wat good wuz it for the
Dimocratic party to remove the tax from the
ticles witch the Dimocrisy the Corners never
yoosed. and retane it onto their stapiesR
| never saw the Dimocrisy terribly eggscit-
ed in my life. The prospect of fve-cent likker.
which elittered afore their eyes for a mint, he'd
dazzled EN-. and TO hev it extinguished in gloom
wuz severe a revolution.
After more profanity than had herd for a age
they passed this resolooshen:
Wareas, We sposed when we heered that the